Privacy

Route Forecast is a free app. The short version: there are no accounts, no ads, and no tracking cookies. Your routes and settings stay on your own phone or computer, and nothing is ever sold.

Questions or requests: use Send feedback in the app. Messages come straight to the person who builds Route Forecast.

What stays on your device

These are stored only in your browser on your device. We don't keep a copy.

• Routes you open or save, and your recent routes
• Your settings, like start time, speed, activity, units, your commute, and whether you run cold or warm
• Forecasts and map images saved so the app works without signal
• Up to 40 recent forecast checks, to highlight meaningful changes to the same planned outing

To delete all of it, clear this site's data in your browser settings.

What's sent to other services to make the app work

• Weather: points along your route (rounded to a grid about 3 miles wide) go to Open-Meteo to get forecasts and air quality.
• Roads, water, and campsites: points along your route go to OpenStreetMap's Overpass servers (overpass-api.de, or a backup at overpass.kumi.systems) to look up surface, traffic, water stops, and campsites.
• Maps: map images are loaded from map providers, which see which area of the map you're viewing. Depending on the map style, that's Thunderforest, CyclOSM, OpenTopoMap, Esri, Waymarked Trails, or OpenSnowMap.
• Hosting: the site is hosted by Netlify, which may keep standard server logs, such as IP addresses, for security and to keep the site running.

Anonymous usage counts

To learn how many people use the app and which features are useful, we count visits and feature taps (for example, "ride mode opened") with GoatCounter, a privacy-friendly counter. It doesn't use cookies, doesn't track you across sites, and never receives your routes, route names, or location.

Anonymous error reports

Error reports are off unless you turn them on under Forecast details & preferences → Weather preferences. If you do, then to fix broken uploads, forecast requests and app errors, the app sends fixed error categories, app version, browser family, screen category and browser or Home Screen mode to Netlify Forms. Reports exclude routes, route names, coordinates, GPS data, URLs, exception text and stack traces. Reports are limited to five per day per browser, and you can turn them off again at any time. Netlify may retain standard server logs as described above.

Your location

The app only asks for your location when you use ride mode or "Riding weather where you are," and only with your permission. It's used in your browser to find your spot on the route or to get the weather near you, and the rounded coordinates go to Open-Meteo for the forecast. Your location is never stored or sent to us.

Strava

Connecting Strava is optional and currently open to a small test group. If you connect, Route Forecast asks Strava for read access to your profile, routes and activities so it can load your routes and learn your pace and power. Your Strava sign-in is stored only in your browser. Requests pass through Route Forecast's server function only so the app's Strava secret stays private; nothing from Strava is stored on a server, shown to other people, or sold. Strava routes and activity data saved in your browser are deleted after 7 days. Disconnect any time in the app, which also revokes Route Forecast's access in Strava.

Your year in weather. If you open it, Route Forecast reads the list of your activities for the year from Strava and looks up the weather where and when each one started. The summary is worked out in your browser and kept on your device; it isn’t stored on our servers. A shared image goes only where you send it.

Races you follow are a short list kept on your device. Calendar reminders are a file your own calendar app opens; we don’t get your email or calendar.

Weather on your rides. If you ask Route Forecast to add the weather to a ride, it also asks Strava for permission to edit your activity descriptions, and adds a short weather summary to the end of that ride’s description, keeping everything you wrote. If you turn on Add weather to new rides automatically, Route Forecast’s server keeps your Strava sign-in token (not your password) so it can do this when a new ride uploads, even while the app is closed. That token is stored privately on our hosting provider (Netlify) and used only for this. It reads only the new activity and its GPS track to work out the weather, and stores nothing else from it except a count of rides updated. Turning the switch off, disconnecting Strava, or revoking access in Strava’s settings deletes the stored token.

Tips

Tips are handled by Stripe. We only receive what Stripe shares about a payment, such as the amount and the email you give Stripe.

Children

Route Forecast isn't directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect information from them.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date.